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Around the Nahe - Idar-Oberstein and Hinzert camp
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Walk in Bad Kreuznach Luxembourg
Ebernburg

Paris

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Christmas market in Strasbourg

Bacharach Luzern and Basel
Sankt Goar
Annevoie and Dinant


Around the Nahe and on the Rhine







Bacharach - Crane tower (Kranenturm) and Stahlberg castle



Boating on the Rhine



looking at the classic train tunnels



and the wineyards

The Loreley



her cliff


and the Loreley Museum with Kaub's City tower
and the Katz (cat) castle above

Kaub and Gutenfels above it



Mainz tower in Kaub

General Blücher's statue
Kaub is where Blücher crossed the Rhine with
50 000 soldiers, 15 000 horses and 182 canons in 1814, follwing Napoleon until he was defeated in Waterloo - in which defeat Blücher's troups played an important role.
urther places on the Rhine
on the next page

The "thick tower" in Kaub


Let's go back to the Nahe
Idar-Oberstein

The Felsenkirche

The main street of Oberstein and the old castle

The new castle

A fountain in the city


Hinzert, the concentration camp where Luxembourgers were held

Tnhe names of the victims

The memorial with the cemetery behind

The documentation centre in the background





One of the most famous sights are the houses on the bridge






Walk in Bad Kreuznach


The bridge itself, with a figure
of a local character,



the Schampesklappergasser




         




Further local figures on the Corn market





Local market sellers




A modern fountain where horses
were drank before



The Dibbemann, carryingf pottery, with
a priest looking on from the "window"






Buildings over the old city walls



   Probably maids of a local merchant
called Milleman


The Holocaust memorial,
St Paul's church in the background

Also memory of a Jewish house


The oldest church of the city,
St Nicolas





Ebernburg


 

Ebernburg

facing Rheingrafenstein

Above the village of Bad Münster


Was a refuge for the reformators, the first non-catholic service (it is controversial whether it was indeed Lutheran) was held here in 1522

A memorial tells the story of the castle
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